The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1907, Page 22

Chicago Beauty Contest Is Won by Young Stenographer Continued from Page 21, Column 1 [ pffered prizes to the first, second, third and fourth most beautiful women, and had agreed to publish the names and photographs of the four winners. But when the judges came to select the winners they made the astonishing announcement that, while they had agreed on fhe first, second and third prizes, they had found among the pix thousand photographs ninety-three other women of surpassing peauty and recommended that the entire ninety-six be declared prize- Wwinners. ! The Chicago millionaire was game. This recommendation of the | |udges meant that he would be obliged to pay out a lot more money | for prizes and that he would be obliged to publish the names and | photographs of ninety-six beautiful women-instead of three or four. He still said, “Go ahead,” and everybody in Chicago was waiting inxiously for the day set for the announcements. All wanted to see {he pictures of the ninety-six beauties and learn the names of the prize-winners Then occurred the third act in this wonderful modern drama. The Chicago Sunday Tribune offered to pay the expenses of t_he pdvertising*c aign, as well as the prize-money, for the exclusive privilege of lishing the photographs and announcing the names bf the winners. The Chicago Sunday Tribune was willing to pay $25,000 for the photographs of ninety-six beautiful women and the pews story of the selection of the beauties. lhing for a newspaper to.pay more than $250 apiece for a group of pearly a hundred photographs. At first the millionaire was inclined to refuse. Chomas reasoned with him. “The Tribune publishes the leading Sunday paper in Chicago,” they urged. “There is nothing in the terms of your wager that would forbid your giving them the exclusive story and the photo- graphs. It will relieve you of all expense, and $25,000 is not to be thrown away lightly, even by so rich a man as yourself.” “Go ahead, then,” he said, once more, and Lord & Thomas jurned the entire beauty quest data over to the editor of the Chicago bunday Triburte, stipulating only that the names and photographs bf the ninety-six prize-winners be published as they had announced h their advertisements. This, of course, the Sunday Tribune was tlad to do, and the pictures of the prize-winners have ‘been appear- ng for the past few weeks. All the pictures were published before the names of the prize- winners were announced, and the contestants and their friénds and tverybody else in Chicago have been speculating anxiously on which ine of the ninety-six would win the first prize. The winner of the first prize—therefore officially as well as really fhe most beautiful woman in Chicago—is Miss Della Carson of 1248 | Diversey boulevard. Her name, address and photograph as the winner of the first prize are first published today exclusively in ’he San Francisco Call and the Chicago Sunday Tribune. San Francisco Call readers will be able to see how this young Chicago beauty looks, they will be able to study her photograph ind see if there is any truth in the Chicago Sunday Tribune’s con- ention that she is the most beautiful woman in the whole wide world and if /that paper is justified in challenging California to produce a beauty that is her equal. What do ybu think of her? Bhe is beautiful, certainly, but is she the most beautiful woman in the world? Miss Carson is a medium blonde, and she is 24 years old. She has been working since she was 19, and her pay is $12 a week. Her lather died some years since, and she has been the main support of her mother and two sisters, with whom she lives. She has been known as a great beauty among her friends and acquaintances, but the great social world knows nothing of her. Her home on Diversey boulevard is in a respectable but not a fashionable neighborhood. Bhe is modest and quiet and sensible. She will be surprised to learn this morning that a friend entered her picture in the beauty contest, and that she is acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in Chicago. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing in the béauty contest is that the first prize was won by a working girl. Is it possible that with zll their aids to beauty the women of fashionable society must yield the palm to the young women who work, who lead simple lives and have few pleasures and little opportunity for culture? And will the rest of the country permit the Sunday Tribune’s | thallenge to pass unnoticed? Will the Chicago beauty be permitted to wear her crown without protest from the beautiful women of California and their fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts? But Lord & California Beauty Is Supremé Continued from Page 21, Column 8 1, but hers will not compare with the marvelous beauty of the fair On America, and we will seek through The Call a woman more beautiful than the winner of the Chicago contest THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. And thus has the Chicago Tribune accepted The Call’s challenge: CHICAGO, IlL, Feb. 23, 1907. The Call, San Francisco: We have received your challenge and we accept it, being willing to Jeave the decislon as to the comparative beauty of the women of California and the women of Chicago to any impartial judges. CHICAGO TRIBUNE. 8o the contest 1s on. California will win! But The Sunday Call needs victory sure. If you know a beautiful woman—and it's ou do if you live in California—sénd a photograph of her Address it to the Beauty Editor. Do not wait for the d the photograph, for her modesty may restrain her, and ul tly lose an opportunity which possibly may be meant wore certainly than for any other California woman. If you neglect to send her photograph you may rob her of the chance of winning the salver of gold and, even greater, an acknowledgment of that proud distinction which is doubly hers because God hath giver it. Each photograph must bear the true name and address of the lady of whom it is a likeness. If requested, The Sunday Call will use only the initials in publishing the photo, though there is nothing in this contest to make any proud woman other than glad to bhave her name entered in it. The real names and addresses are necessary for identification—otherwise we might not know to whom to send the goldr when it has been won! The photographs received will be published attractively in The Sunday Call for some weeks to come. The better the photo the better the reproduc- tion and the stronger the contestant’s chance of winning the highest approval of the jury. Actresses, models and professional beauties are barred from this contest. Footlight beauty has its inning continually. This contest is to bring out that beauty which hallows thousands of California firesides.. Any respectable woman not of the exempted class just stated is eligible. There are no restrictions whatever. There is no prejudice and no favor. A capable, impartial jury with which The Sunday Call will have no directing influence whatever will judge the merits of these beautiful women as shown in the photographs sent in. The decision of the jury will be the law of The Sunday Oall in making the awards. The duration of the contest will be announced later. It's time now to get busy for those you admire and those you love. Send in the photographs from every part of California. Send them at once. The first installment of them will probably be published in The Sunday Call next Sunday. Who is the most beautiful woman in California? Let every loyal Californian help us show Chicago. . — DISCUSS SLUM PROBLEMS |Juvenile Court shall be paid by the | State. The amendment to this measure giving the appointment of the officers to judges was opppsed on the ground Associated Charities Indorse Bill It was an unheard of |’ r behalf we challenge the statement that Chicago | PROHIBITION CAMPAIGNS ARE WAGED IN 15 STATES Crusaders Against Liquor Traffic Offer 250 Bills in Seven Weeks CHURCHES IN LEAGUE Great Alliance Formed to War on the Selling of Intoxicating Drinks CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Numerous bills | aimed at the liquor traffic in various States throughout the country, intro- duced during the first six weeks of this year, show that the Prohibitionists are zealously active. Up to the present time . 260 bills, many of them of the first importance, have been offered. Ten States now have Prohibitionist Senators or Representatives in their 1 slatures. It is also reported that . mission,” although widely ad- vertised, has failed to elicit any popu- lar response in either Maine or Kansas, while législation strengthening pro- hibition enforcement is scheduled for passage in each of these States. Campaigns for complete prohibition commanding public attention in at t fifteen States. Righteen move- ts for uniform county option laws t floodtide and measures toward at end have been introduced and are pending. Prohibitionists are sounding a warn- ing against high license as & subst!- tute for prohibition or local option bills, charging that this is the last ro- sort of the saloon interests to keep the real issue from popular notice. In six States fullfledged movements are under way for State high license legis- lation. In Pittsburg recently an interchurch conference in which official temperance leaders of sixteen great denominations participated, plans were adopted for the organization of a National Inter- church Temperance Federation of all churches in America, to carry on & unified, practical and persistent cam- paign for tne final overthrow of the “rum demon” in the United States. The objects of the temperance coun- cil will be an expression of the unity of churches in prohibition work, uni- fication of the churches' temperanoce ef- forts by an agreement upon plans and methods and the measures most worthy of promotion by all the churches, the finculeation of temperance principles and the preservation of the rising gen- eration from intemperance, to oreate a sentiment that will compel the civil authorities to perform their whole duty, to enlist pulpit, platform and press in behalf of better temperance laws and in protest against the non- enforcement of existing laws and to preserve the churches from entangling political alliances. DUNNES THEGHIES GOST CHIHGD § LARGE SUM Municipal Ownership Proves Expensive Even at This Early Stage ARMY OF HANGERS-ON Law Department of Windy City Is a Strong Rival of Our Legislature SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE OALL CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Municipal own- ership theories as practiced by Mayor Dunne are costing the city of Chicago a pretty penny. This is shown in the marvelous growth of the city’'s law de- partment, both as to number of persons employed and to the aggregate ex- penses. In 1908 the total expense of the cor- poration counsel's office was $78,000. This was increased in 1904 to $106,522. In 1905, the first year of the Dunne administration, the office cost $149,063. Estimates for the year 1906, the figures not yet being compiled, give a total of | over $200,000. 4 \ During the first six months of last yvear the city spent for its law advisers $97,846, as compared with $62,345 for the éorresponding period of the pre- vious year. At the same rate of increase the ex- penses of the law department will ex- ceed $250,000 for the current year, not taking into account the heavy additions required by the taking over of the City Attorney's work., The law department seems to have been the refuge for a large number of more or less political lawyers Who endeared themselves to the Mayor’ by their zeal for Immediate Municipal Ownership. There were, of course, no oivil service requirements in the corporation counsel's office, and the places had to be provided for the men who had made themselves useful. after another of them was sent to the corporation counsel's office. As the office could not get along without the force which had been trained In city work, nearly all the old force was retained. It is related at the City Hall that in at least a dozen cases | Corporation Oounsel J. Ham Lewis, in the jargon of the corridors, “went to the mat” with the Mayor and succeeded in preventing the retention of men without any qualifications to do the work. In other instances, however, the doughty colonel was unable to over- come the political claims of the ap- plicants, and they went on the pay roll permanently. The real work of the office, however, continues to be done by the old-timers who were kept on, notwithstanding the fact that they were all Harrison men. One | They are made of imported Sateen, Coutil, Batiste, also ribbon tape; mostly all of them are aluminoid boning, which is rust-proof and unbreakable; lace ribbon and embroidered trimmed, short, medium and long bust, habit and Princess hip; some have double garter attached, side and front. In all colors, black, pink, blue, white, gray. Not one worth less than seventy-five cents, others as high as $2.75. The smaller the size you wear the smaller the price. The reason of the small price is, the manufacturers discontinued shapes and some they could not get any mgre materials to make them with; we being a préferred customer they sold them to us at a given away price and they’ll go to you the same way. Sale on bargain counter, second floor, millinery department. MORE GOOD OFFERINGS LADIES’' GLOVES—Made of picked lambskin; out- seam stitching; one large clasp; Paris Point stitched back, in brown, gray, tan, white, black; warranted and fitted; for wear it will outwear any $2.00 gloves made. Our price. ..$1.25 ° BUREAU SCARFS—54 inches long, 18 inches wi LADIES’ COMBINATION OR ONE-PIECE SUITS—Made of Peruvian yarn, velvet-lined, fine Jersey knit, high neck and long sleeves; shaped at the waist line, ankle length. Instead of 85¢, to reduce stock..... 33 I Lo 50¢ LADIES' VEST—Made of India thread, gauze weight, fine-ribbed low neck and no sleeves; neck and arm-holes finished with hand-crochet beading and ribbon in white; real value 25c. A lucky pur- chase enables us to Sell them for............ 10¢ LADIES' COLLAR AND TAB—One of the many new styles we have to show you; made of silk finished cloth, handsomely embroidered in colored cilk thread; will add neatness to any dress; worth double this price......aceeeerciiaannan. ..19¢ WRITING PAPER-The genuine Dublin linen full pound weight for.........ccoooaenen ..25¢ LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS—Made of soft-bleached lawn, narrow hemstitched v small hand-made initial; worth three times price ... > . 6¢ EMBROIDERIES—For making the new French corset covers; full fifteen inches wide, in the new- est Swiss embroidered patterns; small and w scalloped edge; regular 75¢ and $1.00 kind. > an inducement to bring you to the store....50¢ CUSHION COVERS—Top and back, large tassel in each corner; made of real Turkish tapestry, in fancy bright colors, in stripe effects; noth equal these to brighten up your: cozy rn Price aesoadigeed 23¢ sheer made of white lawn, scalloped redge, flowered patterns, machine braided, worth double this price.......... SR LADIES’ HOSE—Made of English thread, heel and toes; fast black; real value, 20c Monday R LADIES’ VEST—Made of pure Vega silk, ribbed; deep hand-crochet yoke, low { sleeveless; in pink, blue, white; real worth 75¢ and 05¢. To reduce stock....eeeue-.. N s isne 50¢ LADIES’ SKIRTS—Made of imported sateen, trimmed with a 12-inch flounce, with two small hemstitched ruffles, also dust ruffle; finished w four rows bias fold tailor stitched bands; al worth, $1.50. Special for Monday......... $1.00 LADIES’ DRAWERS—Made of soft-bleached mus- lin; umbrella shape; trimmed with a deep hem- stitched ruffle; full width, but small in price; reg- ular price, 30c. For Monday....geesceseeses 0. JOE ROSENBERG The Under-Price' :;::}: o g Sometimes they were let go for a while, but found their way back again, as the need of their services became too ap- parent to be done away with. All this time the city is paying large sums for special counsel. To look after immediate municipal ownership C. S.| Darrow received $50 a day, with $25 a | day to Attorney Glen E. Plumb to assist | Supreme Court. at $10,000 a year. day. day to look after traction cases in the L. Fisher wad on the roll of the Mayor's contingent fund | Francis S. Walker as special counsel drew $100 a day, and | Joseph David half as much. | Thorne is said to have received $50 a w. list of Immediate Municipal Owners workers. Even before the City A ney's office passed Into the the Mayor a half dozen Immedia nicipal Ownership men had bee over, with the request to gi places. Porter | —_——— In the city prosecutor’s office & dozen [ Opera seating, folding chairs and church furnl- him. Major B. B. Tolman drew $50 a imen were employed, malnly from the ! tyre. The Whitaker & Ray Co.. 141 Grove st. * Buying property in Parkside means invest- ing money safely and with assurance of profitable returns. Litle tracts here and there are put on the market, without sewer, gas or water con- nections, without connecting streets or any comprehensive plans. The troubles of the buyers then be- gin; there are assessments for street and sewer work—else they go without. Parkside has the advantage of im- provements being made on a grand scale—miles and miles of sewer, gas and water pipes are being laid—the ma- terial is on the ground—the work is heing done as fast as men can do it. Those who visit Parkside come away delighted with the climate, the view, the splendid improvements, the pros- pects for the future. Here is a list of the names of 136 of those who have bought lots at Park- side this month. Every one is swayed more or less by what others do—these 136 buyers thought Parkside looked so good that they bought one or more lots. Fach day in the week several buy- ers put their seal of approval on Park- side by investing their money. You can do no better. Parkside lots are good property to- day—they’ll be better property mnext year—they’ll be worth double before the five years elapse in which you have time to pay for them. For every dollar you invest the company invests two thousand; they’re not going to see theirs lose; they must take care of yours. TODAY IS YOUR DAY NAME. Martin_Hokson . Peter Ellason H. Johnston .... James Tredinnick Peter J. Braun .. Charles A. Lahert. Albert Feldman John O. Hainer . Harry Schlager Walter R. Palmer . Johnson & Noran .. Johnson & Twilley George Higgins Chas. Lenstrom . . R. Doughart Geo. J. Aitkin < > \\ NAME. BOUGHT. Mrs. B, Smoot . 1 Miss H. McGow: John R. Hansen Mrs. A. Berthelot James French .. Mrs. K. A. Ragsdale. A. L. Glidden ... Mrs. J. J. McDoug: T. Tlfhe Evan A. Cummins May J. Reiter Geo. ¥, Green .. Daniel Courtney Wallace Ouimus Bdward C. Mausshardt Geo. F. Green . Carl Wassersleben Wm. E. Perriman Mrs. R. Stasal . Francis E. Lindle Ellen Templeton Nellle J. Stack . Miss P. 1. Wessel A. Berkman .... Miss B. Conroy . Mrs. Made Hutch NAME. Louisa J. Gesfo! Edward V. Carbone . . C. C. C. James Sophia_Randall . Pease and J. W. Tuttle. Chas. H. Wright . rank R. . _P. Echols . Mrs. 8. R. Sq b 1 John Arthur ‘Wm. T. Mackie Carl Kure ..... Rob: McLag] John r 1ton H. John ‘onens . Laurence H. Simon Mrs. C. Cole Youn, Elsie J, Goodfriend Minna SImon ....c.eeee 10010 1 b1 ot k0 ket kst et 55 b ot ket b Geo, L. Dealey . H. N. Casero . Felg Paduveri NAME. ' Edward Burnham ervey ... Chas. Hammond Mrs. M. Lukrafka . 35 Thoma ... TS, . B Henaele o A. C. Hutchinson Come to Nineteenth Avenue and H Street-— Regulating Tenements 'he bill before the Legislature regu- jating tenement construction Francisco and forestaling the slum problems that confront Eastern citles, was warmly indorsed by the Assoclated Charities at its last meeting. "The bill wae drawn by the Commonwealth Club #nd received the active support of the California Club. Other legislative matters were con- pidered by the Charities Association. [t advocated the bill providing that baleries for probation officers of the in San| that it would bring the officers within the patronagée class. ' The work of the State Board of Charit! and Correc- tion was also indorsed, and a protest was made against the effort to abolish or cripple the board. —_———— North German of Hamburg Must be sued in Germany before April 17th, 1807. Bring in your pollcla?to the Policy-holders’ Company, 1901 Post street, corner of Fillmore. > —_——— Difficulties are but doors of delight. AT PARKSIDE G. H. UMBSEN & CO. x5 0ms, jeorge Schafer . SOLE AGENTS Branch Office, 19th Avenue and H St. etk ek o et etk o 0 et et South of Golden Gate Park-- today---get off at our branch office--ride in our free automobile fo PARKSIDE